8. 'Goats Head Soup'

The follow-up to the sprawling Exile on Main St. was bound to suffer some creative lag. Yet 1973's Goats Head Soup, recorded mostly in Kingston, Jamaica, contains some of the band's finest moments, including "Angie" and the outsize indignation of "Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)," a bleak but musically thrilling tale of life and death on the mean streets of New York.